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A Change of F ront. 
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separation the study of human nature has been greatly ob- 
scured. In psychology, in sociology, in ethics, just as is the 
case in morphology, embryology, and physiology, we shall 
gain much by proceeding from the simple to the more com- 
plex, and in viewing man not as an isolated independent 
being, but as a part of a coherent whole. 
Let us turn now to a writer who speaks perhaps rather in 
the interests of aesthetics and of natural theology than of 
revelation, and whose attitude, as far as modern biology is 
concerned, is far more hostile than that of the Bishop of 
Carlisle Mr. Henry Bellyse Baildon is probably a young 
man, which may account for the general tone of dogmatism 
and rashness which pervades his work,_ and which is rather 
curious on the part of one who thinks it necessary to 
describe himself as “naturally apprehensive, sensitive, and 
timid.” His declared objedt, a crusade against materialism, 
is one with which I heartily sympathise. But I fear that 
he includes under the term “ Materialism ” dodtrines with 
which it has no necessary connection. What, foi instance, 
must we think of the following passage . My general aim 
is not so much to discredit Darwinism proper, as held by 
the original author of the doftrine, as to attack, and if pos- 
sible demolish, that materialistic and atheistic system for 
whose bricks Darwin himself has but supplied the stubble. 
For such a task his preparation has been to lead a great 
part ” — not the whole — of the “ Origin of Species. Again . 
“ Nor does Darwin in person head the crusade of atheism. 
Further * “ Thus in his anxiety to avow his deism (? theism) 
he (Darwin) banishes the aftion of his Deity to a remote 
period of the past, leaving Him as it were at the very verge 
of His own universe, in such a position too that He must 
recede continually before the advance of Science. That 
Mr. Darwin by no means intended to leave the deistic 
(theistic) idea in this perilous position may well be believed; 
t was his ill-timed zeal in giving his bow of belief (!) at 
the end of a volume, which he could not but be aware was 
of an atheistic flavour, that did all the mischief. His fol- 
lowers have seen the weakness of his position, and have 
many of them gone on to atheism. From these passages, 
and indeed from the whole tone of the book, it would seem 
that Mr. Baildon views the New Natural Hi^stoiy as favoui- 
able to atheism, and as hence deserving of hostility. He 
gives in, truly, his formal adhesion to the great principle ot 
Evolution. He declares that “ Evolution is indeed, bu the 
generalisation or fulfilment of the dittum Natura non habet 
saltum, wherein lies the alpha and omega of physical 
